﻿CenterFielder﻿ ~ Senquez Golson ~ Ole Mississippi Rebels ~ 5085/175

Regarding CenterFielders

CenterFielders ~ This is my term for "Free Safeties", as I find the application of the term "Safety" ~ a limp, lame term, to put it kindly ~ to be an Asinine Appellation for a Gladiator. The Prototype would be about 6000/200 or so.

CenterFielders are indeed the Last Line of Defense. But I sense that with the increasing Hybridization of Skill Sets in the Years to come, it will be advantageous for Teams to seek CenterFielders who can not only act as a Reserve Defender in Support of their CornerBacks, but who can ~ at a moment's notice, if need be ~ flip into Direct Coverage.

As such, I have discovered a natural Synergy between the Skill Sets of CenterFielders...and NickelBacks.

CenterFielders, like RoverBacks and Gryphons, are Hybrids, tasked both with Pass Coverage and Run Defense. Unlike Rovers and Gryphons, however, CenterFielders are expected to prioritize Pass Defense. As such, I'll be breaking my Evaluations down along the same lines as with the others, but with a decidedly divergent Emphasis:

* How quickly and effectively one Reads & Reacts to the developing Play.

Run Defense

* Power * Agility * Combat Skills * Processing Speed

Pass Coverage

* Agility * Processing Speed

Senquez Golson Scouting Report

Agility:Extraordinary. Tremendous Acceleration and Long Speed, and sensational, serpentine Fluidity.

Processing Speed: Excellent.

Run Defense: Shockingly Exceptional!! Despite being the approximate Size of a Gnat, Golson commands extraordinary Core Power, tremendous Combat Skills, and an outstanding Motor. He's Small, but he is Tough, and he is Strong.Pass Coverage: Tremendous. I am projecting Golson as a Corner to CenterFielder Convertible, where he'd play Running Downs and Ambiguous Downs as a CenterFielder, which'd be a new Gig. There, I believe, he'd have Tremendous Potential, because he brings an extraordinary combination of Field Vision, Fluidity, and Speed to the BattleField. And at NickelBack, where he'd play on pure Passing Downs, his Size Liability would be dramatically reduced, as the overwhelming majority of his Foes would thence be Spry Flies like himself, and thus a good Match Up.

There is an enormous Difference between being Short and being Small, and Golson's Core Power is extraordinary, which goes a long, long way to ameliorating the Effects of yon Lack of Beef...But, Senquez....175 Pounds???

If he doesn't Beef Up, he'll be highly susceptible to missing big chunks of Time due to the Rigors of being a Gladiator.

And if he does do so, he'll be in danger of losing some'f'is Quicks.

So there is a substantial Risk Premium at Work, here, and my Rank & Grade for'm will be attenuated accordingly.

Having said all that: Senquez Golson's combination of Field Vision, Fluidity, and Speed is simply tremendous, and even at 175 Pounds, he is an astonishingly Tenacious Run Defender. There's no way in Hell he'd survive, mind you, playing half his Snaps at CenterFielder at 175, where Run Defense would be a far larger part of his Game, but there's really no particular reason to expect that he'd lose any of his remarkably Agility if he beefed up 15 to 20 Pounds.

This is all Theoretical unless somebody is smart enough to Develop & Deploy'm as I'm proposing, but were they to do so, I believe Golson would have the Potential to develop into one of the Game's very best, both as a roaming, marauding CenterFielder on Base Downs and Ambiguous Downs, and as a NickelBack on Passing Downs.Grateful Thanks, as always, for the crucial Work done by the folks at Draft BreakDown!!

﻿Market Value

4th/5th Round﻿

﻿Yankee Grade

2nd/3rd Round﻿

﻿Yank Rank: Warrior ~ Sleeper!!﻿

Please do Note: This and all Evaluations issued by this Site are produced by a ludicrously unqualified Amateur, privy to not even the tiniest fraction of Coach's Tape, Scouting Expertise, Face to Face Interviewing, Experience, or Inside Information enjoyed by the Professionals. As such, anything put forth is certainly misinformed, euphonious, derivative Tripe, and should be rejected out'f hand and indeed shunned by all men and women of Good Will!! I'm trying to discern Power, Agility, Combat Skills, and far more abstract, esoteric Concepts such as Processing Speed and Motor, and I'm trying to do so based almost entirely on a fascinating fusion of Tape, Combine Numbers, and Pro Days, while trying to attenuate my findings based on Allowances for Competition Level, Scheme, Concept, Context, and, above all: Trajectory!!

None of this is even remotely a Complaint, mind you, but rather a Warning!! Caveat Emptor!!